You Are What You Eat 0
And you are not very pretty.
Fresh Air considers what you eat. From the recap:
Chicken litter is exactly what it sounds like: a mix of chicken manure, dead chickens, feathers, and spilled feed that has been rendered down into a uniform substance and then marketed to the beef industry as cheap feed for cows.
“Obviously, it’s going to be cheaper than corn or soy or other things that they feed cows,” says Philpott. “So a rather significant amount of this stuff ends up being mixed into cow rations and fed to cows. … But chickens are fed various beef products [throughout their lives]. … And then what you’re getting is cows eating cow protein, which as Americans probably remember, is the source of the mad cow scares.”
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If you can stomach it.
